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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Comments ().

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. But while this blog happily runs out of S3, the process of creating and updating the content still required a server to run my Moveable Type installation and hold the database. No Server Required. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3.

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By Werner Vogels on 23 February 2011 09:43 AM. In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. It imported the commented from my Moveable Type server without a hitch. Comments ().

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone. All Things Distributed.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

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By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Caching has become a standard component in many applications to achieve a fast and predictable performance, but maintaining a collection of cache servers in a reliable and scalable manner is not a simple task. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed.

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

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By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. Comments ().

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Comments ().

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